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I will inquire with Podbel'skii.
I advise against arranging any direct or indirect dealings whatsoever with the Omsk counter-revolutionaries.
[453]
Lenin.

1 According to G. E. Zinoviev, Lenin had in mind the proposed negotiations of the Council of People's Commissars of the Petrograd Commune with the Omsk Menshevik-Socialist Revolutionary government regarding obtaining grain for Petrograd.

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NOTE TO M. YU. KOZLOVSKII.1
[June 11, 1918].

Comrade Kozlovskii!

It is necessary to conclude the business with the Commission on State Control as quickly as possible. I ask you to come today to the SNK and take the floor on this matter. Agreed?2

1 M. D. Kozlovskii was a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Justice and a member of the Small SNK.

2 The note has been preserved with the protocol of the SNK No. 137 of June 11, 1918 (arch. IMEL No. 11589).

In late March 1918, a conflict arose in the collegium of the People's Commissariat of State Control, for the examination of which the SNK on April 1 appointed a commission. The question remained on the agenda of SNK sessions throughout the following months and was repeatedly postponed for various reasons. Ultimately the commission was formed consisting of: M. Kozlovskii, M. Vronskii, M. Vladimirov, and others. On June 11, 1918, the SNK heard the report of M. Kozlovskii, which advanced the point of view that the conflict had arisen from disagreement between the People's Commissariat of State Control and the Central Commission on State Control regarding the tasks of state control and the methods of implementing it in practice; the SNK adopted a decree on the abolition of the Central Commission on State Control (see. Protocol SNK No. 137, arch. IMEL No. 11589).

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NOTE TO THE COMMANDANT'S OFFICE.
June 14, 1918

The bearer hereof, Comrade Nikolai Aleksandrovich Emelianov, who possesses a certificate from the Sestroretsk Soviet of Deputies, is to be—